Handbook for the Displaced - Gramedia

Identity has its ghostly part, i.e. one’s past. It can be nightmarish, but mostly it is elusive, intriguing, upsetting. Robin Block’s poetry says poignantly about it. Being Dutch and at the same time having an Indonesian origin, (which is his persona), is a perpetual displacement.

But it is also an endless encounter with the others, including “those living dead” who return, again and again, afresh, to his space. Block uses the figure of Susilo as a kind of proxy: Susilo can never be alone, all those living dead repeating their youth outside office hours.

I enjoy reading Robin Block’s poems because they are true to what poetry is about. It is a way to remember but not to repeat—to welcome what is elusive. —Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet

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Penulis: Robin Block

Penerbit: KPG, 2024

Kategori: Poems

ISBN: 9786231341358

SKU: BRD22282

Bahasa: English

Dimensi: 13.5 x 20 cm l Softcover

Tebal: 156 hlm | Bookpaper

Harga: 104.000